Sudhindra R. Gadagkar, Ph.D.

My research focus is on using quantitative and computational tools and techniques in understanding biology from an evolutionary perspective. A background in organismal biology, statistics, genetics, and computational biology has allowed me to indulge in a somewhat wide area of research, ranging from using simulation to understand molecular evolution and phylogenetics; writing computer programs to improve and make freely available computational statistical tests; investigate the evolution of coding and non-coding regions of the genome; investigate the incredible diversity of the plant genus Impatiens (with over 1000 species) that takes on added significance as its only sister genus, Hydrocera has exactly one species; and collaborate with a variety of colleagues to whose research I contribute in the areas of molecular evolution and phylogenetics, computational techniques and statistics. The tools I use encompass empirical, analytical and bioinformatic approaches.